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I was recently inspired by Tim over at Flashlights Are Something to Eat and Johnny at Freddy in Space to finally get off my butt and write about a topic I’ve been meaning to get to for what seems like forever, namely, taking an awesome 80s film and finding cool stuff in the background that makes said film even more awesome. Specifically I wanted to take a closer look at some of the kid’s bedrooms that I kind of obsess over. Not sure if I’m going to make this a reoccurring column just yet, but either way I wanted to focus on just one room today. Probably my favorite kid’s bedroom in an 80s flick, let’s take a closer look at Sara’s room from 1987′s Adventures in Babysitting!

So, Matt at Dinosaur Dracula recently wrote about this room, mainly to point out the inclusion of a certain plush toy that I’ll get to in a minute, and pretty much anyone who has seen this flick knows that Sara is mildly obsessed with a nordic Marvel character that goes by the name Thor (ever heard of him?), but there is a metric ton of other cool stuff in this room…

So, let’s take a look at what I was able to spy in the room. In the screen shot above we of course have a ton of Thor references (which I haven’t numbers because that was just going to get out of hand) including the large cut-out standee on the wall to the right, the wicked awesome Thor bedspread, the Thor Halloween mask hanging from the right bedpost, and the super cool drawing of Thor on the rainbow bridge to the upper left of the bed. So, what else is hiding in this image…

*UPDATE #2* I don’t know where that Hot Dog is from (Thanks to Jack Frost for solving the Hot Dog mystery!), but I managed to find a clearer picture, as well as a better one of Sparks…

Moving right along, here’s out next screen shot…

Okay, I’m officially going to give up counting Thor references because there are like a billion on the floor by Sara. I will say that it’s rad how often she can be seen sporting the Thor helmet. More importantly, this shot has two more awesome background elements…

Next up we have three more Thor sitings with another large standee, the light switch cover above it (not on the actual light switch as it’s one of those weird paddle switches) an another drawing above that. And on the shelf to the right…

12). Transformers Dinobots Snarl wall clock from Concept Clocks (which happens to have a reversible image plate with the Insecticon Bombshell on the other side!) It’s so damn rad that Sara is also a major Transformers fan…

In the above shot you can get a better look at that Thor drawing on the wall (and there’s another off to the right.) But let’s take a look at the bookshelves shall we…

14). A 2nd set of Transformers Walkie Talkies, this one shaped like Optimus Prime

*UPDATE #3* I have no idea what that red plush is next to the Transformers clock. It looks like it has a ton of sharp teeth though. *Thanks to Newton G. of Infinite Hollywood for identifying the red toothy plush as LB the Bounder from Teddy Ruxpin!

And for the last screenshot, a much more recognizable background item…

So there you have it. Sara from Adventures in Babysitting has a pretty darn awesome bedroom filled with all kinds of rad toys, a lot of which I wished I had as a kid. Did you spot anything that I missed?

*UPDATE #4* Can anyone identify the grey and red robot by Sara’s feet? Thanks to Tintod at the wicked awesome Junk Fed for identifying the robot at Sara’s feet as none other than a Jim the Politician remote control robot!